| S.47 | S.17 |
| Any allegation of abuse or neglect or any suspicious injury in a pre or non mobile child. | Allegation of physical assault with no visible or only minor injury (other than to a pre or non mobile child). |
| Allegations or suspicions about a serious injury to a child. | Any incident / injury triggering concern eg a series of apparently accidental injuries or a minor non-accidental incident. |
| Inconsistent explanations or an admission about a clear non-accidental injury. | |
| Repeated allegations or reasonable suspicions of non-accidental injury. | Repeatedly expressed minor concerns from one or more sources. |
| The child has been injured (even if inadvertently) during domestic violence. | Allegations of one serious or three minor domestic violence incidents. |
| Repeated allegations involving serious verbal threats and / or emotional abuse. | Allegation concerning serious verbal threats. Allegations of emotional abuse including that caused by minor domestic violence. |
| Allegations / reasonable suspicions of serious neglect. | Allegations of chronic or periodic neglect including insufficient supervision; poor hygiene, clothing or nutrition; failure to seek / attend treatment or appointments; age inappropriate domestic chores. |
| Medical referral of non-organic failure to thrive in under fives. | |
| Direct allegation of sexual abuse made by child or abuser's confession to such abuse. | Suspicions of sexual abuse eg sexualised behaviour, medical concerns or referral by concerned relative, neighbour, carer. |
| Any allegation suggesting connections between sexually abused children in different families or more than one abuser. | |
| Schedule I offender moving into a household with under eighteen year olds. | |
| Any suspicious injury or allegation involving a child already on the child protection register or looked-after by a local authority. | |
| No available parent / carer and child vulnerable to significant harm eg. an abandoned baby. | No available parent / carer, child in need of accommodation and no specific risk if this need met eg. unaccompanied asylum seeking child. |
| Suspicion that child has suffered or is at risk of significant harm due to fabricated / induced illness. | |
| Children subject of parental delusions which imply risk. |